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[โ€“] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 51 points 4 months ago (10 children)

Bayesian purist cope and seeth.

Most machine learning is closer to universal function approximation via autodifferentiation. Backpropagation just lets you create numerical models with insane parameter dimensionality.

[โ€“] embed_me@programming.dev 2 points 4 months ago

Any practical universal function approximation will go against entropy.

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